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Avi Loeb
Avi Loeb, pictured here in 2017, is a Harvard professor an astrophysicist who founded the Galileo Project, a controversial center dedicated to unearthing evidence that objects made by extraterrestrial life are in our solar system.
Lindsay Sanwald, Her Loop Pedal, and Her Surf Board
A Masters of Divinity candidate graduating this spring, Sanwald lets her spirituality manifest in a variety of ways: the psychedelic indie-rock one-woman show she performs under the stage name Idgy Dean,; the Patreon account she runs to offer sermons, spiritual guidance, and meditation to monthly subscribers, and, as of late, surfing.
How Not to Die Alone, According to Relationship Expert Logan Ury
This counterintuitive revelation — that the road to love can be paved with scientific rationality — is the foundation of Ury’s book, as well as her career more broadly.
An Antique Bookstore for the 21st Century
The Brattle Book Shop in Boston, full of rare and antique books, is one of America’s oldest and largest used bookstores.
Benjamin Bolger Has No Post-Graduation Plans
“Other people might read a magazine article in The Economist,” Bolger says. “Maybe I'll do a master’s degree instead on the topic.”
How David Foster Grew the Harvard Forest to New Heights
The forest, Foster says, “is one of those kinds of resources that no other university has, so it’s something that Harvard should really cherish.”
Benjamin Bolger
Benjamin B. Bolger holds 16 post-graduate degrees from some of academia's most prestigious institutions from Harvard to Oxford.
Dr. Jeffrey D. Rediger's Pillars of Spontaneous Healing
In 2003, Rediger decided to collect and examine these cases to better understand what was behind these spontaneous recoveries. “Although I was able to fit most of those stories into the worldview that I’d been trained in as a physician, some of them I couldn’t,” he explains.
Georgiy Kent 3
Before the pandemic, groups of Harvard bell ringers would travel to Russia for two weeks in the summer to study bell culture, tour sites of bell production, and practice ringing bells at various monasteries around Russia.
Georgiy Kent 5
The original Lowell bells were gifted to the House by businessman Charles Crane, who bought them from the Danilov Monastery in Moscow in 1930. In 2008, they were replaced with replicas.
Remi Drolet 1
Remi R. Drolet competed in cross-country skiing at this year's Winter Olympics in Beijing.
Remi Drolet 2
Drolet relaxes in his room in the Olympic Village. He took a year off from Harvard to focus on skiing full-time, but plans to return in the fall to complete his degree in Physics.
Nathan Mallipeddi 2
Nathan V. Mallipeddi, a student at Harvard Medical School, started the Stuttering Scholarship Alliance to help provide access to teletherapy and group therapy for people who stutter.
Jeffrey Rediger
Dr. Jeffrey D. Rediger, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, studies the mystery of so-called spontaneous healing.
Georgiy Kent 1
Georgiy A. Kent, the former president of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers, played the Ukrainian national anthem on the bells last week.
The Russian Bell Ringers Society Rings Out Support for Ukraine
When Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, Feb. 24, Georgiy A. Kent ’22 watched in anger and dismay as his family’s home region came under attack.
“I Preach Acceptance”: HMS Student Nathan Mallipeddi Redefines Stuttering
Today, the once-shy Nathan Mallipeddi is eager to get to know everyone he meets at Harvard Medical School. “I was quiet for so long, going through something that a lot of people weren’t even aware of, and I had this battle raging inside me,” he says.
For Ayush Noori, Juggling Freshman Year and Neurodegeneration Research
In layman’s terms, Noori defines his work as “applying cutting-edge machine learning approaches across computer vision, natural language processing, and graphed representations learning.”
Around the Olympic Village with Remi R. Drolet
For Drolet, a cross-country skier from Canada and physics concentrator in Adams House, it took a while to realize he was at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. It was only when he drove past a large display of the Olympic rings lit up in the dark that the magnitude of his accomplishment sunk in.
A Master Storyteller Walks into a Bar
Bodkin’s enchanting voice, musical prowess, and larger-than-life persona have earned him an illustrious career as a master storyteller.
Beth Huang’s Vision of Civic Engagement
Massachusetts Voter Table is a coalition of organizations focused on civic engagement and voter participation among working- class voters and people of color. In the past decade it has been involved in many efforts to achieve these ends: Before last year’s redistricting push, a 2014 initiative gave employees of large employers up to five days of paid sick time per year. In 2018, Massachusetts established a $15 hourly minimum wage.
Wait Wait … It’s Emma Choi!
Emma E. Choi '22 had no expectation that she’d become the host of a new NPR podcast. In fact, she recounts that her supervising producer took aside and told her candidly, “Emma, I don’t think we can hire you. You’re a college student. We’ve never done that before. We just want to see what it’s like.” But to her surprise, she landed the gig.